2008 WINTER RESIDENCIES, EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
Press Release
(New Life) Trajectories
A joint-project of Transart Institute and Wooloo Productions
Exhibition curated by Sixten Kai Nielsen and Martin Rosengaard
This January, Transartists will converge at the New Life Gallery in Berlin and the Chelsea Gallery Space in New York for a residency which will culminate in the "(New Life) Trajectories" Project with an exhibition of Transartists curated by Sixten Kai Nielsen and Martin Rosengaard; "Maps & Directions" - an artistic development workshop; "The Map is not the Territory" - three short artist talks; open house and receptions in both locations.
Every winter, trajectories intersect at residencies for contemporary art groups and members of the Transart Institute. New collaborations form in which an international group of artists, curators, and theorists make art, exhibit and perform, try new things, get fresh views, and dip into current discourse. This year Transartists visit Wooloo Productions in Berlin, established to represent, describe and investigate contemporary Nomadism and related topics and practices. Wooloo's curators present exhibitions which "vitalize our globalized present". The New Life Shop gallery forms part of their on-going project New Life Movement - an initiative founded to platform artistic modes which transcend national borders and identities.
Transart Institute is an international MFA in New Media program for working artists to develop a sustainable creative praxis. The program consists of four off-site semesters, three summer residencies in Austria; and two winter residencies in the US and Europe. It is intended to lift the boundaries between applied and fine arts, traditional and new media, artists and scholars. The innovative program focusses on content and context. Students are free to pursue work in any media art-related genre and to create their own course of study and to work in the genre(s) which best communicate their ideas including animation, architecture, curating, cyberart, digital and experimental media, film, gaming, graphic design, installation, painting, performance, photography, robotics, sculpture, sound, text, video, virtual reality.
Trajectories Program: http://transartinstitute.org/Newpages/Residencies_Trajectories.html
RSVP for "Maps & Directions": admin@transartinstitute.org
Wooloo: www.wooloo.org
MFA program: www.transartinstitute.org
RESIDENCY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
CHELSEA Gallery Space New York
526 West 26th Street
Gallery 9E
New York, NY 10001
PROGRAM including Public Events
Exhibition: January 17-19, 2008
Gallery hours: Thursday 5-8
Open house: Saturday, January 19, 1-3 PM
Thursday, January 17
9-12 Installation
12-4 Critiques (7 students 30 min. each)
5-8 Chelsea Gallery Night Reception
Friday, January 18
9-12:30 Critiques (6 students 30 min. each)
12:30-2 Lunch break
2-3 Critiques (2 students 30 min. each)
3-6 Career Development Workshop
Saturday, January 19
9-11:30 Critiques (5 students 30 min. each)
11:30 Lunch break
1-3 Open House Presentation and Q&A
3-4 Lecture: Leon Johnson will present a short film and give a talk "Nomadic Practice: Faust/Wilde/Interzone".
Screening: FAUST/FAUSTUS IN DEPTFORD [video 15 minutes]: A travelogue + a triangulation through remora + remembrance: the unmapped distances between the Faust legend, Christopher Marlowe's murder in Deptford in 1593 + Oscar Wilde's vandalized tomb in Paris.
4-5 De-installation
NEW LIFE SHOP Gallery Berlin
Wooloo Productions
Choriner Strasse 85
Mitte
10119 Berlin, GERMANY
(+49) (0) 306 676 3097
website
PROGRAM including Public Events
Exhibition: January 25-27, 2008
Gallery hours: Friday and Saturday 17-20, Sunday 15-19
Open House: Saturday, January 26, 17-18
Friday, January 25
14:00 Installation in the New Life Shop Gallery
17:00 Gallery open
Saturday, January 26
10:00 - 12:00 Critiques (4 students, 30-min. each)
12:00 - 13:00 "Daily" meeting, topic: curated exhibitions
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 16:30 Critiques (4 students, 30-min. each)
17:00 Open House with Wooloo and Transart presentations and Q&A
18:00 THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY Three Wooloo artists speak about their work
19:00 Reception
Sunday, January 27
13:00 - 15:00 Critiques (4 students, 30-min. each)
15:00 MAPS & DIRECTIONS
Have new work no one has seen? Don't know where to go with it? Ready for some feedback? Come for an individual or group 20-minute session with Transart Institute's international faculty, theorists, artists and curators. Take your work in a new direction, take a short cut or just get your route confirmed. RSVP: info@transartinstitute.org (open to Wooloo members only, join here: www.wooloo.org)
15:00 - 19:00 Gallery open
19:00 De-installation
Faculty and Guest Bios
NEW YORK
Guest Faculty
Thomas Zummer lectures on philosophy and the history of technology, and currently is an Assistant Professor in Critical Studies at Tyler School of Art and a regular Visiting Professor in the Transmedia Programme/post-graduate at the Hogeschool Sint Lukas,Brussels. Among his recent publications are “Projection and Dis/embodiment: Genealogies of the Virtual,” in Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977, Chrissie Iles (Whitney Museum), "What the Hell is That?" Induced Aberration in Cinematic Taxa, a digital book on cinema and the taxonomy of monsters, (Beehive Microtitles #1). Thomas is currently completing a book on the early history of reference systems entitled Intercessionary Technologies: Archive/Database/Interface. He is also a practicing artist, and exhibits his drawings, sculptural and media works.
Thomas at slought
Guest Speaker
Leon Johnson will present a short film and give a talk "Nomadic Practice: Faust/Wilde/Interzone". Leon Johnson produces work in film, performance, and site-specific events. He has an active studio practice, is the proprietor of The Long Bell Press and a founding member of Creative Material Group, a new non-profit arts collective. He is the recipient of a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting and a Yaddo Residency Fellowship. His film FAUST/FAUSTUS IN DEPTFORD was selected for the KunstFilmBienale in Cologne, Germany and the Raindance Film Festival in London, UK. AFTER, a recent video, was published last summer as part of The End of Reality, a DVD and fiction anthology published by Chiasmus Press. Leon is a recipient of the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio and Theory in the Graduate Program at Maine College of Art.
"My work is concerned with the psychogeographical mapping of the present as a portal to the supposedly irreparable, the “held”, past of cities. There
appears to be a creative opportunity, and a tension, between the screening
and the telling of stories of urban memory + desire. In the midst of this
crisis of material and memorial “value” is a tantalizing investigative
Interzone where we might identify strategies for engaging history and
conjuring futures."
FAUST/FAUSTUS IN DEPTFORD [video 15 minutes]: A travelogue + a
triangulation through remora + remembrance: the unmapped distances between the Faust legend, Christopher Marlowe's murder in Deptford in 1593 + Oscar Wilde's vandalized tomb in Paris.
Faculty
Jean Marie Casbarian is an interdisciplinary installation artist who incorporates photography, film and video projections, sound, sculpture and performance into her artworks. She received her MFA from Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College in New York in the year 2000. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the City Colleges of Chicago. Along with a nomination for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Jean Marie has received a number of awards and artist residencies including The LaNapoule Foundation Grant in LaNapoule, France, the Chicago Artist’s Assistance Project Grant, and a yearlong Associateship with The Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Currently, she resides in the Pioneer Valley where she is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Film, Video, and Photography Department at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
artist's website
Within Mary Ting’s varied art practice of installation, drawing, photography and video, the prevailing emphasis is the use of the fragment within a nonlinear narrative. Her work inhabits the realm of temporality, private obsessions and the sensual. Layered with stories, glimpses of memories, metaphors, her animals, figures, limbs, and cropped forms are both personal and allegorical. Mary Ting's artwork has been exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad since 1986. Mary currently teaches sculpture, drawing and paper, 2D/3D, and bookarts for Pratt Manhattan, SUNY at Nassau Community College and CUNY- John Jay College. She lives and works in New York City.
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Klaus Knoll received a PhD from the University of Salzburg for work on "Social and Private Use of the Photographic Medium". Klaus has lectured and taught photography and media studies in Europe and Japan. His photographs are in the collections of the Cologne Museum Ludwig, Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris, and Austrian National Fine Art Photo Collection. His exhibition record includes one man shows at the Tokyo Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Berlin Brennpunkt/DGPh, Alfred Lowenherz Gallery, New York, the Art Complex Musem in Boston.
artist's website
BERLIN
Guest Faculty
Claudia Reinhardt worked as a freelance fashion and advertising photographer (Diesel, Rowohlt and Ullstein Verlag, international publishing houses, editorial work for newspapers and magazines), and later studied at the School of the Arts in Hamburg. During this time she founded the art magazine Neid together with Ina Wudtke and Heiko Wichmann and wrote and photos on the subject of feminist gender issues for Neid and Blau, a woman's magazine in Berlin. Current exhibitions of work have been held at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, TIFF International Film Festival, and Galerie Piper & Engler, Berlin. Reinhardt is an associate professor at the Art Academy Bergen in Norway, living in Norway and Berlin.
artist's website
Installation artist Debra Werblud resides in Venice, Italy and New York, New York; born in New York City in 1957; received bachelors in Anthropology/Archaeology and Design of the Environment from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA in 1979; independent lecturer at universities and institutions in Italy and the United States (most recently University Institute of Architecture of Venice (IUAV); University of Rome, La Sapienza; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA); consultant in architecture and planning in Italy, USA, Holland (see bio); designer of ceramic and glass objects; collaborator in production of video documentaries; affiliated with galleries in Rome and Venice, Italy and private dealers in both the US and Italy; installation exhibitions include entire or abridged versions of “Matrice” (1998), “Totentanz” (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004), “Limbo” (2005, 2006) in the United States and Italy; honors include artist’s residency at the Corporation of Yaddo (2004 and 2006).
Guest Artist Speakers
For the Berlin Residency, Wooloo has invited three of their artists to give 20 minute talks about their nomadic art practices: Peruvian born photographer and performance artist Sergio Zevallos attempts to define the relationship between humans and their environment, and how we relate ourselves through our appearance, body, intention, and movement. Themes of repetition and replication show how our authenticity can become corrupted as we act automatically, simulating natural behavior. Does mere motion and displacement of matter indicate meaning (or life), and is the meaning of life to simply move through it and experience spaces and sensations? To ease the anxiety of this search, Zevallos creates a false sense of familiarity through blurred and grainy images, replicating memories of places we've never been, but evoking familiar emotions.>> website. Venezuelan artist Valeria Cordero projects deal with identity and semantics, and how relationships and the communications they contain, are altered and influenced by technologoy. She holds a B.A. from The School of Visual Arts in New York. Current exhibitions include Galeria Galou, LeRoy Neiman Gallery. Columbia University and White Box in New York. >> website. Nathan Peters' works focus on an investigation into preparatory sketches of major works but bring what would be the architectural framework to a more prominent position within the image. >> website.
Faculty
Klaus Knoll received a PhD from the University of Salzburg for work on "Social and Private Use of the Photographic Medium". Klaus has lectured and taught photography and media studies in Europe and Japan. His photographs are in the collections of the Cologne Museum Ludwig, Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris, and Austrian National Fine Art Photo Collection. His exhibition record includes one man shows at the Tokyo Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Berlin Brennpunkt/DGPh, Alfred Lowenherz Gallery, New York, the Art Complex Musem in Boston.
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